Atmosphere - 2023/24

[Jazzyblue]

We need to be attracting more younger fans who are the next generation. I don't think daytrippers/tourist are the biggest problem. We have around 36k seasoncard holders across the stadium. The problem is that a lot of blues cant be bothered anymore. They've seen us win it all. We need younger working class lads and lassies from across the city in the ground. Working class people from areas around the ground like Clayton or Openshaw cant afford these £60 adult or £40 child tickets. Let's actually incentivise working class people to get in. This will massively improve the atmosphere alongside a proper home end. And let's stop giving away tickets to corporates otherwise that will also kill off our away atmosphere.

This is it for me. There are older Blues who will shout until they drop, but it should really fall to younger folk to have to make the atmosphere. But the PL is not set up for lads and lasses to congregate in the stands, by price or ticketing. So you end up getting louder chants around the ground, on the concourses and in Mary Ds some matchdays/nights than you might hear in the ground. The young, vocal support is there all across the city, we saw it on the parade, we saw it in town on the night we won the CL, but that energy gets diluted at the turnstile too often. Huddersfield is priced a bit more like a people's game - though really in these times they should bring back the £5/£1 ticket for youngsters for FA Cup - so interested to see what will be like. Though 2pm on a Sunday after Christmas it may not be rocking.

 

[PPT]

Im not against safe standing by the way but why the fuck should fans in the South Stand who have been there since it opened have to move to a different stand?
Lots of older fans in the South Stand sit together and love the view and the atmosphere with the regulars around them.
Make the new stand all safe standing and that should be enough for a decent atmosphere..
Also if City decided to do what you suggested and make both ends safe standing do you think they would relocate the ones who prefer to sit at the same price as they pay now.

Thousands of lifelong, match-going blues have been booted out of their regular seats during the last few years so the club can change the seating arrangements. Once this happens, the regulars get dispersed around the stadium and more than a few just jack it in as the friendships and relationships they have created down the years are simply wiped out. This is another contributory factor to the crap atmosphere on match days. However, if the club decide they are going to do it, then they will. The long-standing fans will simply get a short but polite email telling them that the seat they have occupied since the day the Etihad opened has gone. Maybe a sweetener or two for a couple of seasons will be offered, but that's about it. You're out!

 

[jrb]

Thousands of lifelong, match-going blues have been booted out of their regular seats during the last few years so the club can change the seating arrangements. Once this happens, the regulars get dispersed around the stadium and more than a few just jack it in as the friendships and relationships they have created down the years are simply wiped out. This is another contributory factor to the crap atmosphere on match days. However, if the club decide they are going to do it, then they will. The long-standing fans will simply get a short but polite email telling them that the seat they have occupied since the day the Etihad opened has gone. Maybe a sweetener or two for a couple of seasons will be offered, but that's about it. You're out!

It happened to a mate at work and his dad who were forced to move from their seats they’ve always sat in when the 3 front rows of seats on ESL1 were taken out to eventually make way for the larger digital advertising boards. After being messed about by the club they decided not to renew their season tickets. They’ve not been to a home match since.

 

[blue by birth]

Thousands of lifelong, match-going blues have been booted out of their regular seats during the last few years so the club can change the seating arrangements. Once this happens, the regulars get dispersed around the stadium and more than a few just jack it in as the friendships and relationships they have created down the years are simply wiped out. This is another contributory factor to the crap atmosphere on match days. However, if the club decide they are going to do it, then they will. The long-standing fans will simply get a short but polite email telling them that the seat they have occupied since the day the Etihad opened has gone. Maybe a sweetener or two for a couple of seasons will be offered, but that's about it. You're out!

It happened to me..I used to be in what is now the family stand but was told I had to move because it was becoming a family stand.
They put me in CB for next season at same price as I was paying in other stand but then it was pay full price or move..I went onto value gold until SS3 opened..had same seat ever since..great view and lovely fans around me.

 

[East Level 2]

Had we gone two up against Liverpool the place would have been rocking. Had Haaland scored that sitter to put us 3-1 up against Spurs the place would have been rocking. But the atmosphere reflects what is happening on the pitch and we haven't been particularly impressive at home this season in the PL other than against Bournemouth.
There's an argument that we should be "the 12th man" but that's rarely the case at other successful clubs. The Highbury Library for example, Anfield other than pre-match when singing the dirge, the swamp apart from a few nursey rhymes. All three would be good when celebrating victory but not for most of the game unless they were two or three up.
Stoke had a great atmosphere and the fans seemed to be genuinely up for it. Palace claim another but with them it seems to be more "look at me, aren't we ultras great". I'm told Forest is good but I've not been for years and Burnley always seemed lively until we scored. Spurs new ground is impressive and was loud the first couple of times I saw City there, but I believe the intensity drops unless they are winning.
It might sound arrogant or entitled but fans can't get excited about going two up against Palace. I was delighted when Rico's goal was finally awarded by VAR, but the delight was nowhere near what I felt when John Stones header was awarded by VAR to put us two up against Arsenal last season. Or when we went two up against the rags, or Bayern or Real Madrid.
The above won't change whatever we decide to do to the North Stand.
But what do the fans want now? Ever since we moved from Maine Road City fans have said they want to be either side of the away fans for the banter. This happens a bit at other clubs but the majority of the noise comes from the other end.
The idea of a huge home end is great, but we need boisterous fans to fill it. That won't happen if there is a large hospitality area in the middle of it or if the prices are too high.

 

[LEXSTARproject]

Looking at the


The club know exactly what the fans want. They’ve read it on BM, on other City fan forums, and on other City related social media websites.

The club has held meetings with the OSC, 1894, City Matters, etc, who have all told the club what the North stand should be like and what the fans want.

The club aren’t against what the fans want, but they aren’t promising anything atm. They are listening and talking, albeit to a select group of fans rather than engaging with the wider fan base on match days and at branch meetings. Hopefully that will come in the future?

My take is that the club are trying to find a compromise which will allow them to create a proper home end for the legacy fans, but which will also include hospitality.

I don’t think anything has been discounted yet with 2 years to go until the stand is open. But at some point in the future City will have to make a final decision on the seating layout. General seating, safe standing seating, hospitality seating, ambulant seating, etc.

My compromise would be to remove the proposed 700 seats at the front of tier 2, whilst expanding the hotel/hospitality seating at the back of the stand. I would relocate the centre ambulant seating, and expand the ambulant seating at the front of the two lower side blocks above the steps.

Liverpool now have two safe standing ends, the KOP and Level 1 of the Anfield Road stand. Noticed that yesterday whilst watching the Scousers v the Rags. Something similar could be done with SSL1 and NSL1.

Coach Wreckers OS.

The move will now see the introduction of safe standing areas across all rail seating sections on the Kop and in the lower Anfield Road Stand from Saturday.

LFC awarded Safe Standing Licence for new season - Liverpool FC

Liverpool FC has been granted a Safe Standing Licence for the 2023-24 season following an application to the Sports Ground Safety Authority (SGSA) earlier this year.

www.liverpoolfc.com

@jrb you are spot on, certain people in the club need to have a look at what is happening, do they just want money and NO ATMOSPHERE or do want a twelve-man helping team? The whole north stand should be safe standing except the sky bar area.

As a club why are we not looking at what other clubs are doing, for example, both Spurs and Everton in their new stadiums have a south stand inspired by the Yellow Wall at Dortmund, every single new MLS stadium has the same, so what do the execs at City the complete opposite

The EPL also needs this to help the atmosphere as these types of fans are now everywhere except the EPL, singing when something happening on the pitch is not helping the atmosphere what if nothing is happening on the pitch?

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Looking at the


The club know exactly what the fans want. They’ve read it on BM, on other City fan forums, and on other City related social media websites.

The club has held meetings with the OSC, 1894, City Matters, etc, who have all told the club what the North stand should be like and what the fans want.

The club aren’t against what the fans want, but they aren’t promising anything atm. They are listening and talking, albeit to a select group of fans rather than engaging with the wider fan base on match days and at branch meetings. Hopefully that will come in the future?

My take is that the club are trying to find a compromise which will allow them to create a proper home end for the legacy fans, but which will also include hospitality.

I don’t think anything has been discounted yet with 2 years to go until the stand is open. But at some point in the future City will have to make a final decision on the seating layout. General seating, safe standing seating, hospitality seating, ambulant seating, etc.

My compromise would be to remove the proposed 700 seats at the front of tier 2, whilst expanding the hotel/hospitality seating at the back of the stand. I would relocate the centre ambulant seating, and expand the ambulant seating at the front of the two lower side blocks above the steps.

Liverpool now have two safe standing ends, the KOP and Level 1 of the Anfield Road stand. Noticed that yesterday whilst watching the Scousers v the Rags. Something similar could be done with SSL1 and NSL1.

Coach Wreckers OS.

The move will now see the introduction of safe standing areas across all rail seating sections on the Kop and in the lower Anfield Road Stand from Saturday.

LFC awarded Safe Standing Licence for new season - Liverpool FC

Liverpool FC has been granted a Safe Standing Licence for the 2023-24 season following an application to the Sports Ground Safety Authority (SGSA) earlier this year.

www.liverpoolfc.com

The atmosphere at Anfield is terrible. Full of tourists and corporates. Old Trafford is the same. It’s a wider football issue. Not saying we shouldn’t try to improve it but don’t think our fans are any different to anyone else.

 

[Elliot houghton]

Small things do make a difference more than we think like banners, Loads of scarfs, Flags could bring a new feeling to the place hopefully at the new stand we are able to hang banners off the tiers them Electronic ones look awful also create a section where we have flags up most of the match warn people before that this will happen so they can decide to sit here or not so we don’t get “put the flag down I can’t see”

 

[SouthStandStander]

Stood there (SSL1) for years when it was the key 103 stand....hassled by showsec every game and even I got arrested for persistent standing ffs

I spent a decade there. Stewards did my head in, had to sing "stand up if you love city" about 20 times a game" to get them to go back to the front and start all over again with asking fans to sit down.

 

[mancityvstoke]

I spent a decade there. Stewards did my head in, had to sing "stand up if you love city" about 20 times a game" to get them to go back to the front and start all over again with asking fans to sit down.

fuck off showsec fuck off showsec....even chanted that in AA lower in the seated Kippax